...Thoughts about the future Summaries The Pedestrian: The Pedestrian is a story set in the future, more specifically in 2053. The main character, Leonard Mead is taking a walk in the evening. It’s dark, chilling and silent. The world is boring and lifeless. On his walk in the streets there are absolutely nobody in the streets but him. The only sign of other people are the flickering light from the TVs in the houses. On his way home, a police car stops him. The light from the car blinds him, but he hears the voice of a police officer. The voice asks him to state his business, alone in the streets in the evening. He tries to explain that he’s just walking and has done so every night for years. But the police don’t seem to understand and decides to arrest him. That’s when he realizes that it isn’t an actual policeman; it’s an automated voice. The police car is going to take him to a Psychiatric institution. Harrison Bergeron: In Harrison Bergeron we are introduced to a world where everybody is equal. If it’s necessary, you get applied what’s called handicaps. It means that if you’re fit or strong you get heavy blocks attached to your body and it’s very illegal to remove them. Smart people wear earplugs that make a noise at frequent intervals, which prevent them to do any smart thinking. The story is about George and Hazel Bergeron who is watching television. George is very handicapped with both blocks and earplugs. But Hazel is very average and don’t need any handicaps. They...
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...English IVB (AKA English 12) | Activity | Points | % of Total | Discuss | 90 | 7% | Exam | 20 | 2% | Explore | 10 | 1% | Final Exam | 100 | 8% | Journal | 80 | 6% | Practice | 250 | 20% | Quiz | 390 | 31% | Test (CST) | 100 | 8% | Test (TST) | 200 | 16% | | Total Points for the Course : 1240 | Unit 1: The Romantics | Lesson 1.1: Introduction to the Romantics | Activity 1.1.1: Study - Historical and Literary Context | (Documents: Study Sheet) | Get an overview of the historical and literary context for the reading. | | Duration: 40 min | | | Activity 1.1.2: Quiz - Comprehending the Study | Take a quiz to assess your understanding of the material. | | Duration: 20 min | Scoring: 10 | Points Earned: _____ | Lesson 1.2: Romantic Poetry | Activity 1.2.1: Study - Romantic Poetry: Spontaneous Overflow | (Documents: Study Sheet) | Learn about the characteristics and leading writers of Romantic poetry. | | Duration: 40 min | | | Activity 1.2.2: Quiz - Comprehending the Study | Take a quiz to assess your understanding of the material. | | Duration: 20 min | Scoring: 10 | Points Earned: _____ | Activity 1.2.3: Read - Poems from the Romantic Canon | (Documents: Reading Guide) | Read selections from a variety of Romantic poets. | | Duration: 1 hr | | | Activity 1.2.4: Quiz - Comprehending the Readings | Take a quiz to assess your understanding of the material. | ...
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...C. Clarke was born in Minehead, Somerset, England, and grew up in Bishops Lydeard. As a young lad, he enjoyed star gazing as he lived on a farm. He read a lot of science fiction magazines to add on to his upbringing. He gained his secondary education at Huish Grammar school in Taunton. At the school, he would write science fiction papers and magazine articles whichthat got featured in magazines and the schools papers. This town is important to his childhood because this is where he discovered the Taunton library. He visited daily to get new books, he borrowed W.Olaf Stapledon’s last and first men. He said “no other book before had such an impact on his imagination.” That being said I would be confident in saying his genius would likely be linked...
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...Outline: I. Short Stories a) Activating Prior Knowledge b) Responding to the Selection c) Short Story Selections 1. Suggested Activities to use with Various Groups II. Oral Tradition Literature – Tall Tales and Folktales a) Analyze characteristics and plots of Folktales and Tall Tales b) Understanding Hyperbole c) Writing a Tall Tale d) Selections of Oral Tradition Literature III. Novel Studies a) Previewing the novel b) Defining and Understanding Elements of c) Character Analysis d) Problems and Solutions of the story IV. Historical Fiction a) Activating background/prior knowledge b) Setting a purpose for reading c) Writing about historical fiction V. Realistic Fiction a) Evaluating Realistic Fiction b) Responding to the selection c) Distinguishing between Fact and Opinion d) Summarizing the Story Chapter 1 – Short Stories: A short story is, like the name says, a short literary composition. The action is compact and every single event is crucial to the development of the plot. The time span covered within the action of a short story could vary from a few hours to days or years. A short story could have elements...
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...2014 CRITICAL ISSUES The launching of MIRA is a big decision for Harlequin. Mira is a new line of single-titled women’s fiction novel. Harlequin needs to develop and execute new strategies in order for them to explore and be successful in the new single- titled women fiction market compare to their series romantic novels. The primary critical issue facing Harlequin is the "steady loss of share in a growing women's fiction market", due to the growing popularity of single-title novels. With the volume sales dependence that is inherent in series publishing, the unit sales stalling that occurred in the late 80’s and early 90’s acted as a warning signal to Harlequin. While Harlequin was the dominant and very profitable producer of series romance novels, research indicated that many customers were reading as many single-titled romance and women fiction books as series romance novels. A change in pricing strategies enabled revenues to continue to rise, but this was a short-term solution and Mira has the potential to become a long-term solution. However, there are a number of issues surrounding the launch of Mira. Conversely, Mira represents an extremely high risk undertaking for Harlequin with significantly higher costs for production, distribution and marketing. A single-title novel is a unique product, which requires a publisher to generate higher per-unit sales volumes; create individual design, marketing and promotion campaigns; and provide higher returns to authors and third...
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...AC English 9 Unit Exam Study Guide Doehrmann First Nine Weeks Your unit exam will cover four short stories that can be found in your textbook. Specifically, by Thursday, you should have already read: “The Lady or the Tiger” “The Most Dangerous Game” “The Leap” “The Interlopers” “Blues Ain’t No Mockin Bird” “The Garden of Stubborn Cats” What will you need to know? Portions of the exam will assess reading comprehension. Be sure you thoroughly understand all of the stages of plot development for each story (TPPS, Rising Action, Climax, Resolution) Literary elements and reading strategies: Static and Dynamic characters, Suspense, Flashback, Dialect, Irony *3, Antagonist, Protagonist, Internal Conflict, External Conflict *3, Diction, TPPS = Exposition, Fiction, Imagery, Rising Action, Climax, Resolution, Science Fiction Vocabulary words as provided by the instructor How will your test be formatted? You can expect to see any combination of matching, true-false, multiple choice, and short answer questions. In addition, you should expect at least one essay question. Usually, I provide multiple essay options so you can choose one that best fits your writing talents. You will not take the same exam as your peers from the other AC English 9 class. A blind draw will be conducted to determine the order of exams. How can I prepare efficiently and effectively for this exam? 1 - Budget your time and activities between now and this...
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...to write about a text. You should only use results from the analysis, which are relevant for the focus you have chosen. Novels | Short stories | A novel is a literary imaginative work whose content has been invented in an author’s imagination. It does not represent actuality and it is seldom based on facts.Novels and short stories are fiction. | A short story belongs to the genre fiction.It is epic and it tells a story in just one main plot. Often: * Exposition (eksponering, udstilling, redegørelse) * Complication * Crisis * Sad/happy/open/surprising ending.A short story is often restricted (begrænset) to one setting only; fixed place and time and narrow (snæver, smal) social surroundings. There is a limited set of characters in a short story. A decisive (afgørende) situation beyond a character’s control occurs (forekommer, opstår) and the story starts. A short story only discusses a selected part of life. It mostly shows a decisive moment in life, which can entail (medfører) a fatal blow (skæbnesvangert) | To analyse fiction is to open the text by examining its various components (forskellige bestanddele). A good analysis will cover all the following points. * However, all the points will not be equally important in all analyses. Always base your analysis on what is actually said in the text. Analysing of fiction Description: | * Who is the author? * What expectations do the title and the literary genre raise? * Is the text: * Realistic...
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...This online resource is a two-minute video that discusses the conditions immigrant children were forced to endure as they participated in child labor, as well as how the formation on labor unions and workers going on strike managed to outlaw children from working in sweatshops or factories. Rationale: Many immigrants that came to the United States entered the country with the goal of accomplishing the American Dream, however life in the United States was not everything immigrants imagined. Many immigrants lived in cramped apartments and worked low paying factory jobs to keep a roof over their heads, but oftentimes even this was not enough, and because of this, children were oftentimes sent off to work in factories or sweatshops. This short video consists of audio explaining the conditions children were forced to work in, and photographs that link this real event to actual people and...
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...Qn 2: Last week we studied CVP analysis. Explain how Walker Books might use CVP in decision making. In your discussion, make sure you provide examples relating to Walker Books. (300 words) | Picture | Photo | B+W | Nonfiction | Fiction | Backlist | Unit Contribution Margin ([Total revenue-Total variable cost]/Number of units) | 1.67 | 1.57 | 1.03 | 1.81 | 1.81 | - | Profit ([Unit Contribution Margin*No of units] – total fixed cost) | -$26,642 | -$23,586 | -$24,441 | -$13,619 | -$3,738 | - | Net Profit Margin (Net Profit/Total Revenue) | -7% | -11% | -18% | -7% | -6% | - | Market Share | 18% | 11% | 7% | 9% | 3% | 52% | According to the CVP analysis, profit can be calculated by multiplying unit contribution margin and number of units minus total fixed costs. In this case, we assume that COGS and shipping/ warehousing/ order processing expenses are all variable even though a portion of it is fixed, since vendors often charge a certain fee to gain access to their services. Royalties are assumed to be variable cost as it is a usage-based payment. By determining the profit, it allows us to decide whether to continue or drop the book line. Based on the profit figures, we think that it will be best to drop the picture book line since it is the least profitable. However, it has the highest market share which shows that there are still a high percentage of people purchasing books from the segment (Picture) therefore we assume that profit will increase if we were to increase the...
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...The text under analysis is a short story "The Smile"written by the prominent American writer Ray Bradbury. Raymond Douglas "Ray" Bradbury (August 22, 1920 – June 5, 2012) was an American fantasy, science fiction, horror and mystery fiction writer. He is best known for his dystopian novel Fahrenheit 451 (1953) and for the science fiction and horror stories gathered together as The Martian Chronicles (1950) and The Illustrated Man (1951), Bradbury was one of the most celebrated 20th-century American writers. Many of Bradbury's works have been adapted into comic books, television shows and films. The Smile" is set in the future after warfare has destroyed nearly all traces of civilization. Cities have been reduced to junk piles and cornfields glow with radioactivity at night. The survivors of this warfare wear soiled gunnysack clothing. Their homes are caves and other semi-dwellings that can give them even a measure of protection from the icy weather. Their spirits are as cold as the winter weather because they are filled with hatred for the past; the past has caused their present to be miserable and deplorable.In this society where beauty is nonexistent and where only hatred and destruction remain, the young boy Tom,the main character, stands in a queue, waiting his turn to view "the smile," the Mona Lisa. As each man passes by the portrait, he "appreciates" it by spitting upon it. However, when Tom's turn comes to spit upon the painting, his mouth is dry. All that he can say...
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...He states that grammatical correctness is not necessary in a fictional piece. The goal of fiction is to invite the reader into a magical world, enabling him to exist in an alternative fictional world for a short period of time. “Writing is seduction.” King also suggests, “. . . the paragraph [ ] is the basic unit of writing – the place where coherence begins and words stand a chance of becoming more than mere words.” King’s opinion that a paragraph “can be a single word long or run on for pages. . .” is an important lesson, especially when writing...
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...For other uses, see Fiction (disambiguation). An illustration from Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, depicting the fictional protagonist, Alice, playing afantastical game of croquet. Fiction is the form of any narrative or informative work that deals, in part or in whole, with information or events that are not factual, but rather, imaginary—that is, invented by the author. Although fiction describes a major branch of literary work, it may also refer to theatrical, cinematic or musical work. Fiction contrasts with non-fiction, which deals exclusively with factual (or, at least, assumed factual) events, descriptions, observations, etc. (e.g.,biographies, histories). Contents [hide] * 1 Types of fiction * 1.1 Realistic fiction * 1.2 Non-realistic fiction * 1.3 Semi-Fiction * 2 Elements of fiction * 2.1 Plot * 2.2 Exposition * 2.3 Foreshadowing * 2.4 Rising action * 2.5 Climax * 2.6 Falling action * 2.7 Resolution * 2.8 Conflict * 2.8.1 Types of conflict * 2.8.1.1 Person vs. self * 2.8.1.2 Person vs. person * 2.8.1.3 Person vs. society * 2.8.1.4 Person vs. nature * 2.8.1.5 Person vs. supernatural * 2.8.1.6 Person vs. machine/technology * 2.9 Character * 2.10 Methods of developing characters * 2.11 Symbolism * 2.12 Metaphor * 3 Types of plots * 3.1 Chronological order * 3.2 Flashback * 3.3 Setting...
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...2011-2012 onwards) DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH UNIVERSITY OF DELHI DELHI - 110007 0 Course: B.A. (Hons.) English Semester I Paper 1: English Literature 4(i) Paper 2: Twentieth Century Indian Writing(i) Paper 3: Concurrent – Qualifying Language Paper 4: English Literature 4(ii) Semester II Paper 5: Twentieth Century Indian Writing(ii) Paper 6: English Literature 1(i) Paper 7: Concurrent – Credit Language Paper 8: English Literature 1(ii) Semester III Paper 9: English Literature 2(i) Paper 10: Option A: Nineteenth Century European Realism(i) Option B: Classical Literature (i) Option C: Forms of Popular Fiction (i) Paper 11: Concurrent – Interdisciplinary Semester IV Semester V Paper 12: English Literature 2(ii) Paper 13: English Literature 3(i) Paper 14: Option A: Nineteenth Century European Realism(ii) Option B: Classical Literature (ii) Option C: Forms of Popular Fiction (ii) Paper 15: Concurrent – Discipline Centered I Paper 16: English Literature 3(ii) Paper 17: English Literature 5(i) Paper 18: Contemporary Literature(i) Paper 19: Option A: Anglo-American Writing from 1930(i) Option B: Literary Theory (i) Option C: Women’s Writing of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries (i) Option D: Modern European Drama (i) Paper 20: English Literature 5(ii) Semester VI Paper 21: Contemporary Literature(ii) Paper 22: Option A: Anglo-American Writing from 1930(ii) Option B: Literary Theory (ii) Option C: Women’s Writing of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries (ii) Option D: Modern...
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...Wharton1 David Wharton Dr. Northcutt ENG 1020-04 April 10, 2012 “What a Beautiful Bridge” In the writing of A Farewell to Arms, Ernest Hemingway employs symbolism in many forms. Hemingway uses water in various states throughout the progression of the novel such as the use of rain and rivers to symbolize life and love as well as death and danger. Hemingway uses symbols to allude to the events that will occur in the coming chapters of the novel if the reader is keen to heed them. Hemingway’s use of the “bridge” and the rivers they cross, represent the lives of people and the hazards people encounter when they approach and cross a bridge in an effort to reach what is waiting on the other side. The novel opens with a beautiful description of life and of living our lives. “In the late summer of that year we lived in a house in a village that looked across the river and the plain to the mountains. In the bed of the river there were pebbles and boulders, dry and white in the sun, and the water was clear and swiftly moving and blue in the channels”(3). Life’s river bottom is littered with small problems and with large problems. When things are going well, our lives are blue skies and sunshine and we are eager to have life pass rapidly. Hemingway is making a stand on the political atmosphere that was prevalent in America in the late 1920’s and one which can be applied in contemporary America as well. I must Wharton2 disagree with Thomas P. McDonnell, who wrote in an article for the...
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...FICTION Fiction F. 1 How I Taught My Grandmother To Read by Sudha Murty 1. UNIT UNIT Write about the following memories or experiences. Share your views with the class. i) ii) iii) iv) A memorable holiday spent with your grandmother A story told by your grandmother The things you admire the most about your grandmother The difference between your mother and your grandmother 1 2. Have you ever been on a trip to any place in India, where you didn't know the language spoken locally? How did you feel? How did you manage to communicate? Now read the text 1. When I was a girl of about twelve, I used to stay in a village in north Karnataka with my grandparents. Those days, the transport system was not very good, so we used to get the morning paper only in the afternoon. The weekly magazine used to come one day late. All of us would wait eagerly for the bus, which used to come with the papers, weekly magazines and the post. At that time, Triveni was a very popular writer in the Kannada language. She was a wonderful writer. Her style was easy to read and very convincing. Her stories usually dealt with complex psychological problems in the lives of ordinary people and were always very interesting. Unfortunately for Kannada literature, she died very young. Even now, after forty years, people continue to appreciate her novels. One of her novels, called Kashi Yatre, was appearing as a serial in the Kannada weekly Karmaveera then. It is the story of an old lady and her...
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